Re: this is about oil. It's always about oil

John is poorly or mmisinformed about both Kosovo and Afghanistan oil
connections
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, John Hollister wrote:

> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:03:46 -0400
> From: John Hollister <bb05246@binghamton.edu>
> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> Subject: Re: this is about oil. It's always about oil
> 
> 
> Why does "oil" so easily satisfy the question "what is X war REALLY about?"
> 
> The gulf war clearly was about control of oil, but the Yugoslav and Afghan
> interventions are not. Prospective pipelines are like newagers' ley lines,
> you can run them any which way and find some great significance to attach
> to them.
> 
> More likely, what unites the coalition backing the United States in
> Afghanistan, is simply the possibility of opening long distance trade
> routes. The barriers in that part of the world, what with central asia
> stranded by the soviet collapse, the Afghan wars, the isolation of Iran and
> Iraq, are fetters to capital accumulation in general, not just for oil and
> the commodities that oil money could be spent on.
> 
> John Hollister
> bb05246@binghamton.edu
> 
> 
> 




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